Dr. Jenny Hughes
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Jun
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We have long-term memory and short-term memory.
And so working memory is that short-term memory.
What can I hold in mind right now as I'm doing whatever it is I'm doing?
So like we're talking, I'm holding the question in mind that you asked me as I'm saying all of this stuff.
And when it comes to working with trauma, a lot of times our brain just gets so flooded, right, by the memories, the somatic things that are coming up.
And it's like it gets into this tunnel vision on whatever the trauma is.
And with the bilateral stimulation, it helps to kind of break up that tunnel vision.
It helps to allow for some movement of the things that are coming up and to distract the brain, to tax that working memory.
So that other things can start to come in.
In EMDR, we talk about it's the adaptive information processing model.
So it means in our brain, we have all of these synapses and they connect to anything that has happened in our life, any beliefs.
And our brain knows how to heal itself.
Just like when we get a cut, our body can heal the cut.
Our brain knows how to do that too.
And with EMDR and this adaptive information processing model, it's saying when we can open up that tunnel vision of the trauma and allow for some positive things to start coming in, that's how the healing begins.
All of that's in the brain already.
We just have to allow access to it.
And so that bilateral simulation helps to open some of that stuff up over time.
Absolutely.
And actually, that has been a really important part of the EMDR International Association, EMDRIA, and the EMDR Research Foundation.
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